"Spring" is a new poem written by the modern poet Ai Qingyu1April, 937 in memory of the five martyrs of the Left-wing League. This poem directly links the sacrifice of martyrs with the arrival of spring. In addition to expressing the author's anger and hatred for the reactionaries' crazy killing, it also shows a firm belief that any crazy suppression and killing will be of no help, and the price paid by the martyrs is to usher in a better spring.
Original: "Spring"
Spring has arrived.
The peach blossoms in Longhua are in bloom.
It's open on those nights.
On those bloody nights.
There were no stars in those nights.
It was windy those nights.
Those nights listening to widows cry
This ancient land
Like a hungry beast at any time
Lick the blood of young people.
The blood of a tenacious man's son
So after a long winter.
After the ice and snow season
After infinite drowsiness and expectation.
These bloodstains. Blood.
On a mysterious night
In the dark of the east
Burst countless buds.
Spring is everywhere in Jiangnan.
People ask: Where does spring come from?
I said: from the tomb hole in the suburbs.
Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Hu Yepin, Li Weisen and Feng Keng, five young revolutionaries, writers and poets, were brutally killed by Kuomintang reactionaries in Longhua. This important event in history shocked the whole country at that time. Faced with this cruel and serious incident, revolutionary poets and writers are filled with indignation. As a young poet at that time, Ai Qing was also furious. 1April, 937, the poet wrote this poem in memory of the five martyrs of the leftist writers' association.